Fruit or vegetable peeler.



5 PATENIED APR.1V9,,1904. T. M. GUEST.

' FRUIT (JR-VEGETABLE PEBLER.

APPLICATION FILED APR; 15. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

j IQAi iQPQQyS UNITED STATES Patented April 19, 1901. I A

PATENT OF ICE.

THEODORE M. GUEST, OF MORAVIA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GRANT P. SOMMERVILLE, OF MORAVIA, NEW YORK.

FRUIT OR VEGETABLE PEELER.

SPEGIFIGATIOFT forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,550, dated April 19, 1904.

Application filed April 15, 1903- Serial No. 152,773. (No model.)

table and fruit peeler, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient device of this character by means of which the skin or outer covering of potatoes, apples, and like vegetables and fruits may be rapidly and conveniently removed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character stamped from a single piece of material having its body portion concaved and provided with a diagonallydisposed cutting edge, the upper portion of -which is bent outwardly and downwardly to permit the knife to conform to the shape of the potato or other vegetable to be pared, the body portion being also provided at one side with a knife-edge terminating in a spur or point by means of which the eyes of the potato may be removed.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of of this invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a potato-peeler constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig.3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 isa perspective view of a modified form of peeler. Fig. dis a transverse sectional view of Fig. 5,'and Fig.1 is a side elevation of the peeler looking in the direction of the rear edge of the knife-blade.

1 designates the potato-peeler, preferably formed of a single piece of sheet-steei or other suitable material, pressed or stamped into the desired shape, and consisting of a body portion2, substantially triangular in contour, the lower end thereof being tapering, as shown, and having its side edges bent inwardly onthe body portion to permit the tool to be easily grasped by the hand in using the same. The body portion is inwardly curved or concaved, as shown at 3, the upper end thereof being provided with a diagonally-disposed slot or opening 4, defining an 'upstruck lip 5, provided with a cutting edge 6, the rear portion of the lip being bent outwardly and downwardly, as shown at 7 to permit the tool to accommodate itself to any irregularities on the surface of the potato or other vegetable being pared. One side of the body portion is provided with a knife-edge 8, by means of which any decayed part of the vegetable may be removed, the upper inclined edge 9 of the tool terminating in a spur or point 10, adapted to remove the cores of fruits or the eyes of the potatoes, tSac.

In operation the lower taperingendof the tool is grasped in the right hand, and the potato or other vegetable to be peeled in the other hand, and by moving the tool over the surface of the potato the knife removes the skin, which passes through the slot or opening 4 on top of the body portion, from which it can be removed by turning the tool upside down. In order to get into small corners or crevices of the potato, or to remove any decayed portion thereof, the operator uses the knife-edge 8, the upper inclined portion of the tool permitting the same to'be easily grasped and conveniently manipulated during said operation. The eyes in the potato or cores in fruit are easily removed by using the spur 10, which permits the operator to dig out the eyes or cores and remove them by slightly turning the peeler.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modified form of peeler in which the diagonally-disposed opening is formed with an upstruck rearwardlycurved tongue 11, which permits the. more ready discharge of the peeling.

By having the body portion concaved it permits the tool to conform to the shape of the seen I have provided a simple, inexpensive,

and eflicient potato-peeler capable of evenly and' effectively removing the skin or covering of potatoes and other vegetables and by reason of its extreme simplicity can be manufac tured and put on the market at. a small cost.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

1. A paring-knife consisting of a concave body portion in the form of an obtuse-angled triangle provided with a blade forming one side of a slot extending across the concavity and disposed parallel to a side adjacent the obtuse angle.

2. A paring knife comprising a transversely-concaved body portion, one end of which is tapered to form a handle, and the opposite end provided with a slot disposed at an oblique angle to the length thereof, and a knife-blade extending above and across the concave surface of the body portion.

3. A knife comprising a concave body portion in the form of an obtuse-angled triangle, having a slot parallel to a side adjacent the obtuse angle and extending across the concavity, and a knife-blade forming one side of the slot, having its rear edge bent outwardly and downwardly.

4. A paring knife comprising a transversely-concaved body portion, one end of which is tapered to form a handle, and the opposite end provided with a slot disposed at an oblique angle to the length thereof, a concave knife-blade extending across the cancave surface of the body portion at said slot and having its rear edge bent outwardly and downwardly, said body portion being provided with a cutting edge at one side, 'and a cuttingpgint at the joining of said side and the front e ge.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have'hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE M. GUEST.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL N. ACKER, FRANK S. APPLEMAN. 

